Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1930 — Page 20

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NEGRO EDITOR WILL SPEAK AT MEETING HERE Robert S. Abbott Is Held Leader of Race in Journalism. Robert S. Abbott, editor and owner of the Ch'cago Defender, Will be the speaker ct the Mon ter Meeting Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the Se.iate Avenue Y. M. C. A. Abbott toured England and the continent of Europe last spnng and summer and had extensive contacts with leaders of those countries visited. He was an invited guest at a number of important International gatherings and protested against discrimination in London hotels. Abbott has waged a tireless and fearless fight against proscription on account of race and he is an ardent student of race problems. He has traveled extensively In South America, also studying the contacts of races. Ahbctt is the leader of journalism of the Negro group In America. Won Laurel Wreath He was a winner of the laure’ Wreath awarded bv the Kaopa ; Alpha Psi fraternity for distin- | guished service in the field of i journalism. Music for the meeting will be furnished by the Kappa Alpha Psi | quartet, composed of members of Nu chapter of this city. James Anderson will sing' a group of selections and the Y. M. C. A. band will give a concert preceding the meeting. The meeting is for men only and Will start promptly at 3:30 undei leadership of Lucian A. Coleman and Francis L. Mumford. "The Open Inc; of the Book” Is to he j the Sunday morning sermon theme of the Rev. C. S. Williams, pastor of the Institutional church. Trinity hall. Leonard Franklin will be soloist. Emancipation Service* Set Emancipation services will he held at, j the night worship. The pastor will Give j the address, using for his subject. "The Awakening of the Darker Races.” Lucas j B. Willis will be master of ceremonies I Music will be In charge of C. E. Hicks. "Pacing the Now Year” Is the Sunday j morning mediation of the Rev. M W i Clair Jr., pastor of Simmons M. E. church. In the evening, he will use for his theme. "Divine Scrutiny.” Communion services Will be observed at the evening service. Sunday at Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Zion church, Michigan and B’ackford j streets. Bishop J. W. Wood will be the ! speaker. Bishop Wood, formerly pastor j of Jones church, returned recently from j North Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana, j where he held conferences. He will be in | charge of communion services. Endeavor Meeting Arranged Varlck Christian will be held j at 6:30 with George PWter, president In I charge. Sunday school p*. ill be conducted at 0:30 by William J. HcVl, superintendent. Three weeks’ evangelistic services are being held at Scott’s M. E. church, of which the Rev. D. E Skelton is pastor. Dr. D. W. Bowen, evangelist of Chicago, is In charge of these meetings. L)r. Bowen will preach at the forenoon and evening services and will hold special services Sunday at 3 o'clock, for men only. The public is invited. "Jesus, the Jews’ Messiah,” is the Sunday morning theme of the Rev. G. T. Haywood, pastor of Christ temple. Fall j Creek boulevard and Paris avenue. For i the evening worship the pastor will use : "The Kingdom of God” for his sermon topic. Bpeclal Bible classes will be conducted S by the pastor at 9:45 a. m. and from 6:30 to 7:30 p m. Persons interested in ! Bible study are invited to attend. Father M. Mitchell, pastor of St. Philip's Episcopal church, announces Holy Com- i imintQn at 7:30 a. m. and Eucharist at i 11. O’clock Sunday. For the sermon theme ! Father Mitchell will use. ’'lndifference.” j Evangelist lo Come Here A series of evangelistic services is to be conducted at Barnes M. E. church. West Twenty-sixth and Nice streets for two | weeks, beginning Sunday morning, in I charge of Dr. Elizabeth W. Dudley, evangelist. Dayton. O. The Rev. Robert E. Skel- j ton Is pastor. baptismal services will he observed at the Sunday morning worship at Mt. Pnran Baptist church. Twelfth and Missouri streets. The Rev. C. H. Bell Is pastor. At 8 o'clock communion services will be held. The communion sermon will be preached by, the pastor. A musical program will be given bv the senior choir at the evening service. '"The Faith of Friends” will be the sermon topic of the Rev. J. A Irvine, pastor of. Allen Chapel A. M. E. church. Sunday mStning. Dinner will be served after the morning service. At 3 o'clock Mr. Irvine will preach a special sermon on "How to be Happv Though Married.” At Allen Christian Endeavor at 6:30 installation of newlv elected officers and roll - csll will be held. "Shifting Responsibilities” is to be the pastor's theme at the evening service. Beginning Sunday Jan. 5. the Sur.dav school hour will be changed to 9:30. Dr. H. C. Hoskins is superintendent. Sermon Theme Announced ■•’The Attics of the Soul'' is the sermon theme of the Rev. D. F. White, pastor of Witherspoon United Presbyterian church, at the morning service Sunday. Mr. White also will be in charge of the evening worship. The Rev. G. W. Baltimore, pastor of New Bethel Baptist church, announces the following schedule for Sunday services: At II o'clock, sermon, 'The New Beginning ” 3 p. m . the Rev. Charles Sumner Williams, pastor of the Institutional A. M. E. church will be the principal speaker; musical program by the choir. The Rev. J D Johnson, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist church, will preach at the Sunday morning and evening services. B. Y. P. U. will meet at 6:30. with Mrs. Willa Johnson in charge. Mrs. Etta Graham, evangelist, and Mrs L..Y. McLawler. gospel singer of Chicago, are in charge of a two weeks' revival at Sk John’s A. M E. church. Seventeenth street and Columbia avenue. The Rev. R H. Hackiey is pastor. Ale* Starks. 78. died Thursday night following a short Illness at his home in Meyers road. Funeral notice 1s to be given later. Fraternity to Celebrate Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity will observe founders' day with a format banauet for members and pledges at the Hammonds hotel, Saturday night. Robert S. Abbott, editor and owner of the Chicago Defender, will be principal speaker Attorney R. L. Bailey will be toastmaster. Representatives from Alpha chapter of Indiana university and Alpha Zeta chapter of Terre Haute are expected to attend. Pledges Include William Fountteroy. Clarence Shropshire. Napoleon Richie. Leroy Boyd M.lton Birdsong. Lorenz Pritchett. Willi.-m Beacham. Fred Davidson, Raymond Bacon. Lecil Morris. Paul Jones. Winfield Ransom. Paul Battles, Jack Ferguson and Emerson Murphy, friends' Club will meet Wednesday

Plane, But Not So Plain

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Air-minded young ladies might find this a bit light-headed for use, but Alice White, cinema actress, startled the natives along Hollywood’s boulevards when she “took off’’ with this hat, It may be a plane hat, but it isn’t so plain, we’d say.

MOTHER RECOVERS DESERTED INFANT

Out of Work, Left Child at City Home Until She Obtained Job. Every story has a sequel, sometimes several, and this is the sequel to Baby New' Year’s threat to find the mother of Herbert Smith, 9 months old. Wednesday, Herbert was in the home of Mrs. Anna L. Griffin, 310 North Pine street. He had been left there Dec. 7 by his mother. Mrs. Griffin requested The Times for aid in searching for Herbert’s mother. Thursday she placed Herbert in the Marion county orphans’ home. A few hours later relatives of j Herbert’s mother read The Times ! story and notified her. She took the child from the orphans’ home and turned him over to relatives in Spencer, Ind., for care. The mother is Mrs. Clara Smith, 22 Eden place. She told a Times representative today that she had left her son at the Griffith home when she became unemployed and was unable to care for him. She said she intended to go back and pay the child’s board as soon as she received employment. “I’m working at a restaurant now and will be able to care for him,’’ she said. Numerous offers to adopt the baby had been received by the mother and authorities at the Marion county orphans’ home. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC FORECAST FOR 1930 Year Also to Be One of Progress, Asserts Woman Astrologist. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., Jan. 2. Reaching into the astral spaces from which she believes the fate of the world emanates, Mrs. Allie Hazard Moore, member of the Societe Astronomique of France, drew forth today momentous secrets of 1930. There will be calamities, notably an influenza epidemic, Mrs. Moore said, but it will be a year of vast progress in science, social welfare and economic security. Sitting before her engraved charts the woman astrologist wrote out history in advance. Human beings will manifest a particular cruelty to animals, she warned human societies. The foundations of buildings will crumble away, she cautioned architects. China and India will experience a year of grave political disasters. WINS SCIENTIFIC PRIZE University of Chicago Man Is Given SI,OOO for Proof of Theory. Hii I uiled Press DES MOINES, la., Jan. 2.—Proof that small particles of matter behave like waves of light today won lor Professor A. J. Dempster of the University of Chicago the SI,OOO prize the American Association for the Advancement of Science offers each year for a noteworthy contribution to science. paper was not on the program but he appeared during the week before the physics section of ,he convention that ended today and read the essay that strengthened experimental proof of the new type of physics known as wave mechanics. Ten Boys Drown in Sweden Bui nit-'d Press STOCKHOLM. Sweden, Jan. 3. Ten boys were drowned today when the ice broke while they were skating on the Flian river. afternoon. Jan. 8. with Miss Alice Kelly, 713 North West street. Miss Maud Morirs, Louisville, was the week-end guest of Mrs. Arthur Dodson. ; 2722 Boulevard place. J. C. Patton of Chicago, spent Thursday in this city Preston H. Roney of Tuskegee. Ala.. ! is in the city, called here on account of ; the death of his uncle. Irvin Harvey. Indianapolis Music Promoter's Club will ; meet Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Carlotta McNary. 529 West Vermont street. Program Is Arranged 1 Robert Storms and Puryear Bennett will i speak on the program sponsored by the | Hi Y Club at the Life Builders' Club Sun- ! tiav. at 3 o'clock at the Y. M. C. A. Music will be given by Willis Horner. Sylvester Gentry. Vanleer Britt and H. Horner. Current events will be given by i Theophilus Faison and Roger Hurd. Scout rally for the Central district will be held at the J. T. V. Hill community center Thursday. Jan. 9. at 7:30. Members and friends are invited to attend. One hundred boys have received memberships in the Y. M. C. A. through friends of the Christmas Cheer Club. Persons wishing to add to this list are asked to do so during this week. Mrs. Katie Morris entertained with a dance party for her son. Caldwell Morris, at their home. *27 West Twenty-fifth street. Wednesday night. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. Willie Dickens and son Edward of Chicago, house guests of Mrs. Morn*.

Jim's Generous Hu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Mayor James J. Walker, whose salary recently was boosted $15,000, to a total of $40,000 a year, will give all the increase to charity during his next four years in office. The salary increase has been criticised widely.

BULLETS WHINE DIRGE FOR HOME Wife Slays Mate of 23 Years Over Girl. Hu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—A home that for most of twenty-three years had been happy and in which a boy and girl had been reared to the college age was broken today, the husband and father dead of bullet wounds and his wife held on a charge of murdering him. Florence, 19, and Robert, 22, the children, knew for the first time that Maurice Leeney, 39, had not been their father and that they had been born to their mother by a previous marriage. Mrs. Florence Leeney, 39,'the wife and mother, who became a widow, blamed the tragedy on attentions Leeney paid Mrs. Dorothy Schweinfurth Langley, 20. “We quarreled,’’ Mrs. Leeney said. “I tried to make peace and gave him SI,OOO. He kicked me. “I was afraid he would kill me,” she said, “and so I shot him.” RUBIO VISITS CHICAGO Mexico’s President-Elect Arrives From Detroit Unheralded. Itil United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 3.—PresidentElect Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico arrived from Detroit today without any official welcome. Contrasting with his reception in Detroit where a radical demonstration was staged, the presidentelect’s party was met only by representatives of the police department, the Mexican consulate and the press. A visit to city hall to meet Mayor William Hale Thompson, two luncheon engagements, a tour of the stockyards and inspection of the Board of Trade were on the program of the presidentelect before he leaves Chicago Sunday for his native land. LOUIS GIMBEL IS DEAD Noted Department Store Owner Former Vincennes Man. Bit l nited Press NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Louis S. Gimbel, vice-president of Gimbel Bros., department store owners, died at his home here late Thursday. Born in Philadelphia. Mr. Gimbel began work in the Gimbel Bros, store in Vincennes, Ind., after graduating from Villanova college. In 1896 he took charge of the Gimbel store in Milwaukee. With his brother, Isaac Gimbel, he came to New York in 1910 and inaugurated the Gimbel establishment here. U V IS SCHOOL COURSE Evanston’s Single Y'ouths to Get Personality-Plus Lessons. Bli Vnitril J, r sx EVANSTON, 111., Jan. 3.—The young man or woman, who, according to the advertisements, surprised friends by sitting down to the piano and playing now is to be superseded by the party who walked into a classrocpi an average citizen and came out suffused with charm and exuding “it.” A charm school for Evanston’s unmarried youths is to be started. Professors of Northwestern university will instruct. Married couples will be barred. SLAYERS FLEE BY AUTO Seek Woman and Men Who Shot Pennsylvania Policeman. Bu United Press WHEELING. W. Va.. Jan. 3. The blond killer of Brady Paul, Pennsylvania highway policeman, and her two men companions are believed to be fleeing by automobile. The roadster in which the trio escaped from Newcastle, Pa., after the slaying, was found here Thursday, hidden in a rented garage. Policemen who made the find, also learned another car had been stolen from the neighborhood. Child Dies of Bums Pji Times Special , GARY. Ind., Jan. 3.—Stella Jatczsk, 11, is dead of burns suffered when she poured kerosene on a smoldering fire in a stove at her home.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCHOOL GROUP TO ASK LESLIE FOR STATE AID Committee of Five to Meet With Governor Here Saturday. Necessity for a special session of the legislature to obtain relief funds for state aid schools in southern Indiana, which are $1,000,000 in debt, will be laid before Governor Harry G. Leslie and his school aid commission Saturday afternoon by a committee of five selected at the recent Shtvis conference of school superintendents. The committee met this afternoon in the office of Lewis Taylor, vicepresident of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, to assemble data to be presented to Leslie. The committee is composed of Thomas S. Jones, Corydon; State Senator Carl Gray. Petersburg; State Representative Claude Malott, Bloomington; Oliver M. McCracken, Daviess countv school superintendent, and Taylor. Schools Destitute Records of township trustees and educators of southern Indiana have been turned over to the committee. They show the destitution of the schools and reveal that teachers have been forced to borrow money against their back salary in order to purchase food. In one instance a township trustee was forced to borrow money on a personal note in order to pay teachers. It is expected that Gray will avail himself of the conference to advance his plan for creation of a state-wide unit of school taxation together with the enactment of a luxury tax to raise $20,000,000 annually to defray school expenses. To Name Officers Prior to the conference Saturday Leslie’s commission will elect a chairman and secretary. Leslie invited the commission to be present to become familiar with the problem from the standpoint of educators and trustees. The personnel of the commission has been criticised by southern Indiana educators, who claim it is composed of men from non-state and counties who are not sympathetic with the problem.

In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9:30 a. m.: Northwest wind, 24 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.36 at sea level; temperature, 27; ceiling, 2,000 feet; visibility, 6 miles; frozen field. Lindy Inspects T. A. T. ltu United Press WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 3. —Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was scheduled to inspect facilities of the Transcontinental Air Transport Company here today before proceeding westward on his inspection tour. Colonel Lindbergh did not divulge when he planned to leave here or what his destination will be. Arriving here late Thursday, accompanied by his wife, Lindbergh announced' only that he would remain for the night and leave “some time tomorrow.” •TAX HEADS WILL MEET Leslie Will Welcome Officials at Three-Day Session Start. Chairman James Showalter of the state tax board will preside at the twenty-ninth annual conference of state tax commissioners and county assessors at the Statehouse Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Governor Harry G. Leslie will welcome the tax men at the opening session Tuesday afternoon. William A. Hough, former tax board member, will speak, followed by discussion and committee appointments. Wednesday the conference will be addressed by Pliny H. Wolfard, board member, and Clarence Ullum, and Thursday by William L. Taylor. NIAGARA’S TOLL IS 13 Hurtling of Elderly Teacher to Death Suicide Headliner. Bu United Press NIAGARA FALLS. Jan. 3.—City ifcords made public revealed that thirteen persons were swept over the falls to their deaths or were drowned in the Niagara river last year. Os the number, six were Buffalo residents. The most spectacular suicide recorded occurred March 29, when Albert Steer, 62-year-old school teacher of Streetsville, Ont., hurtled to hi', death by leaping from the lower arch bridge into the Niagara gorge HOOVER EXAMPLE CITED President Practices His Preaching, Says Dry Law Author. '?// I r>i f < il PrcH* WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—President Hoover has set an example for every good citizen to emulate, in the opinion of Senator Jones, (Rep., Wash.) “He practices what he preaches,” Jones said here Thursday night in a radio address on prohibition law enforcement. The author of the famous “Five-and-Ten” law quoted Mr Hoover as saying citizens have the right to oppose a law but a duty to discourage its violation. CORONER GIVES VERDICT Holds William Kampe Slain WTiUe Hijacking Rum Runner. H„r: GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Jan. 3 William Kampe, alleged Indianapolis hijacker, died from bullets from the gun of a rum runner he attempted to hold up on Sta Road 36 near Bainbridge, north of here. Dec. 17, according to the report of Coroner Frank Reed Thursday. Kampe’s body was found in his auto, which had gone into a ditch. Roscoe Pierson. Indianapolis, suspect in the shooting, is held in county jail here pending trial,

Leads Revolt

A revolution to obtain independence from Great Britain is being urged by Jawaharial Nehru, president of the Indian national congress, shown above. Nehru declares that freedom will be gained peaceably, if possible; otherwise, by violence.

WIFE POISONED HIM, SAYS MAN Illness Due to Candy, He Tells Police. When Howard Howley, 37, of 417 Virginia avenue, was found in a critical condition on a road at Acton this morning, he declared to police that his wife Olena, 30, from whom he is separated, gave him poisoned candy. Taken to city hospital after first aid was given in a physician’s office at Acton Howley improved. Traces of poison were found in his stomach, according to reports of physicians to Sheriff George Winkler. Mrs. Howley, living at Acton since she separated from her husband, was questioned at Acton by deputy sheriffs, but had not been taken into custody this afternoon and no charge was filed againts her. Sheriff Winkler indicated Howley’s condition would determine action of the sheriff’s office and that no charge would be filed unless Howley files an affidavit. According to her story, Howley came to her home In Acton today. He had a revolver, she declared, and left the house after a short time to go to a vacant shack nearby. When next she saw him he was groveling in the road and she thought he had been shot, she told police. SEEK ASSAILANT OF LITTLE GIRL Child Flees as Negro Grabs Her in Statehouse. State and statehouse police joined forces today to track down a Negro who twice has attempted to attack small girls in statehouse corridors. Today he grabbed the arm of a 12-year-old girl who was looking at *he battle flags on the fourth floor, and attempted to drag her with him into a dark recess. The girl screamed and escaped. Crying, she fled to the state coal bureau office where she was cared for by Dr. John W. Hewitt, who called statehouse police. A suspect was arrested but the girl failed to identify him. She described the man as a young Negro, not a statehouse employe, who wore a gray overcoat and black hat with a black muffler over his ‘ arm. A similar attempt was made Thursday on a little girl in the casement. Greene said. PROFITS GO TO SURPLUS Transfer of Millions of Indiana National Earnings Tops Y'ear. Transfer of $1,000,000 from the Indiana National bank’s earnings and undivided profits account to surplus was announced today by Frank D. Stalnaker, president, following a meeting of the bank’s board of directors. This move marks the end of a successful year in the bank’s history, and was made possible by the institution's earnings for 1929, Stalnaker said. The bank paid its regular 10 per cent dividend to stockholders this year. The bank now has a capital of $2,000,000, a surplus account of $2,000,000 and an undivided profits account remaining of $900,000. BILLIE DOVE. MATE QUIT Movie Star Admits Marital Rift With Inin Willat. Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2. Billie Dove, screen actress, and her direc-tor-husband, Irvin Willat, have separated, the star admitted today after rumors of the rift had circulated around Hollywood since before Christmas. Miss Dove spent the holidays here while Willat stayed in New York where he had gone to direct an independent production a few weeks ago. WEIR TAKES OVER POST Acting School Head Promises No Radical Personnel Changes. Daniel T. Weir, newly appointed acting superintendent of schools, today declared there will be “no r-d----ical changes” in the school personnel or management. “We will carry on with gradual changes,” he declared. H. F. Osier, acting superintendent of buildings and grounds, has announced the appointment of George Walters, head custodian at school No. 55, as foreman of custodians, re|)lacing WUUam. O'Nan.

HANGMEN BUSY IN CALIFORNIA; 3 DIE BY NOOSE Two Pay at Folsom Prison for Thanksgiving Day Riot Deaths. BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—Today was a busy one for California hangmen, it being the occasion for three executions. Two hangings were scheduled at Fclsom prison. California's penal institution for “two time” losers, while a third was at San Quentin. The condemned; Anthony Brown, 30; Roy E. Stokes, 23, and Louis Lazarus, 32. Brown, a San Francisco bandit, and leader of the bloody 1927 Thanksgiving day riot at Folsom, in which thirteen men were killed, was the first to die. Dies Unrepentant The youthful convict, unrepentant to the last, was executed after 9 a. m. from a temporary gallows which had been erected in a dungeon. Folsom has no regular gallows. Brown was executed for the murder of a fellow convict, George (Rsd) Baker, one of the thirteen who lost their lives during the riot, California’s greatest prison crisis. Tossing aw'ay a cigaret, Brown said to Warden Court Smith: “All right, warden. Let's make it snappy.” Displaying the same contempt for danger that made him leader in the murderous riots, Brown walked to the gollows with a firm step. Offers of spiritual solace were refused, the convict preferring to die as he had lived, without religion. Glares at Noose Glaring for a moment at the noose, Brown climbed the fatal thirteen steps without hesitation and was bound. The heavy trapdoor banged downward, sending Brown to his doom. It was 9:02 a. m. that the trap was sprung and twelve minutes later the prison physician pronounced him dead. Stokes followed Brown up the steps of the temporary Folsom gallows. This youth of 25, a Los Angeles bandit, was in Folsom as a “two-time” lo§er when 23. He was convicted with Brown and four others of murder in connection with the Thanksgiving day riot. Stokes stepped on the gallows at 9:27 a. m. and was pronounced dead seven minutes later. It was Stokes who plunged a dagger, again and again, into the body of Guard Ray Singleton during the prison riot. Today, however, in a spasm of fear, with his lips shaking, Stokes was half carried to the gallows. He braced up just before the hood was fixed, and turning to the thirty-five spectators, mostly newspaper men, said with a twisted smile: “My God, warden, you’ve got an awful bunch here today.”

The City in Brief

SATURDAY EVENTS Beta Theta Pi luncheon, Board of Trade. Sigma Alpha Epsilon luncheon, Cham-, her of Commerce. State Aid Conference, Statehouse. Sargent-Gerke sales meeting, Severin. Executives and store managers cf the Horuff Shoe Corporation, Indianapolis, were guests of Frank J. Horuff, president, at a dinner and business conference Thursday night in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Horuff forecast a banner sales year in 1930. DIPLOMAT TO BE GUEST Vice-President Curtis to Entertain for Retiring Ambassador. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, who will retire next month after six years’ service here, will be the honor guest Saturday night at a dinner to be given by Vice-President Curtis. The dinner will be given at the Mayflower hotel, Washington, home of the Vice-President. Mrs. Everett Gann, Curtis’ sister, will* act as hostess. HOUSE MEMBERS QUIT Two State Representatives Resign to Take Jobs as Mayor. Two Democratic members of the house of representatives have presented their resignations to Governor Harry G. Leslie, each having been elected mayor of his home town. They are William C. Dentlinger of Connersville and Joseph J. Rice of Attica. The law provides that members of the legislature can not hold other political offices. POISON PROBE DROPPED LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3. —Investigation of poison charges in the death of George Lafayette Finn, former wealthy lowa state senator, today was believed virtually dropped by the district attorney's office after the questioning of John Dickey, one of Finn s male nurses. After Dickey had been quizzed, Deputy District Attorney Daniel Beecher said he had found no evidence to substantiate the suspicions of Mrs. Gladys McAfee, grand-niece of Finn, that the lowan was poisoned. Physicians expressed the same opinion. Rediscount Rate Cut Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—Following the meeting today of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, no announcement was made regarding the rediscount rate, which is 4% per

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Junior Owens, Washington, D. C., who will address the annual convention of the Indiana State Bottlers Protective Association at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Jan. 8 and 9, on “The Sugar Tarffi.” Owens is secretary of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, a national soft drink association.

LULL REPORTED IN MENINGITIS No Deaths Are Listed in Last 24 Hours. With twenty active cases of spinal meningitis at city hospital and no additional deaths or cases in the last twenty-four hours, health authorities were hopeful today that the epidemic is in a quiescent state. There have been forty-three deaths and a total of sixty-three cases in Indianapolis in the last four weeks. Deaths Included three out-of-town persons, brought here for treatment. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health commissioner, urged continued use of preventives, because of the danger of another outbreak of the malady. The scheduled Saturday afternoon performance of “Holy Night,” was cancelled at the Civic Theater, because of the epidemic.

AWARD COUNTY PRINTING JOBS Contracts for Five Grades Let by Commissioners. Contracts on five classes of county printing for 1930 were awarded today by county commissioners. Contract for Class 1, including select items used in county offices, was awarded to the Levey Printing Company on a low bid of $38.56. Classes 2,3 and 5 were awarded on low bids to the Biirford Printing Company, Sentinel Printing Company and Burfard, respectively. Class 5 includes election supplies. Class 4, a majority of which is printed at the Colored Orphans’ home at cost, was awarded to the Burford Company on a high bid of 58.74. Six competitors submitted lower bids. Commissioners three weeks ago declined to accept bids on county printing because, they said, bids included “trick” figures. WHITE CASTLE CHAIN REWARDS EMPLOYES Workers’ Dividend of $48,250 Ls Issued by Food Shops. Bu United Press WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 3.—Purveors of hamburger sandwiches in fourteen groups of White Castle eating houses in the United States were $48,250.04 richer today. E. W, Ingram, vice-president of the chain, announced he has distributed checks totaling that amount as employes’ dividends. When translated into sandwich terms the total disbursement amounts to 965,000,000 hamburgers at current prices of 5 cents each. Eight White Castle eating houses here were expected to share in the employes’ dividends, although the amount was not known today. Offices of the system here are located at 5 South Oriental street. River Floods Tracks Bn Times .Special LAGRO, Ind., Jan. 3.—Flood waters of the Wabash river at a point near here have overflowed tracks of the Indiana Service Corporation, stopping interurban car service. Passengers, however, are enabled to continue from the point on to Peru in busses provided by the traction company, File Bankruptcy Petitions Will W. Failing, Kokomo, Ind., salesman, and Mrs. Blanch G. Falling, also of Kokomo, filed petitions of bankruptcy in federal court today. Failing listed liabilities of $56,663 and assets of $2,355. Mrs. Failing listed $2,000 liabilities and $405 assets. Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE The Board of Trustees of the Centra) State Hospital will receive sealed bids, until 10 a. m., January 8. 19S0. for the hospital Junk for one year from Januarv 1, 1930. Bt ORDER OF BOARD OF TP.U3TEES. AUCTION - SALE—LEGAL NOTICE. Notice ls hereby given that the undersigned wlli offer for sale at their place of business. 445-447 East Court street. Indianapolis. Ind., Friday. Jan. 17. 1930, the following personal property: Household goods stored under the names of American Loan Company, Henrv Belger, Viola Bunce, Kort Crittenden. C. H. Harrington. Beatrice Hopkins. Otto Humble. Irvin King. E. B Martz, Charlie Reno. S. D. Roberts. J. C. Swift. Otis Lee Vaughan. Cora Wilson. Said sale being made to defray expense of storage and other charges. Sale will be for cash and public. AUUZ4AK KOUtf

.JAN. 3, 1930

I l egal Notices NOTICE TO BIDDERS Bids will be received by the Board of Trustees at their office. Central State Hospital. Indianapolis. Ind . until 10 o'clock a. m Friday, Jan. 31. 1930. for the Installation of boilers, stokers, I boiler and stoker brick work and brick breeching, and also a heating and ventilating svstem for the Women's Building for the Central State Hospital. Indianapolis. Ind Drawings and specifications will be on I Ole on and after Thursday. Jan. 3. 1930. at the offices of the Board of Trusters I of the Central State Hospital, the State Board of Accounts and Bevlngton-Wil-liams. Inc., the engineer, and releases will be made to bidders on and after said date from the office of the engineer In Indianapolis. Proposals shall be made according to the form attached to the specifications ! and each shall be delivered in a sealed envelope addressed to the President of the Board of Trustees, marked "Proposal ” and bearing the title of the work and name of the bidder. Each proposal must be accompanied by ! a certified check payable to the Board | of Trustees In a sum equal to 5 per cunt ! '5Ol of the amount of the proposal in I accordance with conditions Included In i the proposal form which check shall be forfeited In case of failure of any bidder to enter Into contract and furnish a satisfactory bond In amount equal to the contract price within eight (8• days after notification of acceptance of his proposal. The Board of Trustees is not obliged to accept the "lowest or ar.v other hid submitted and reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, to waive informalities In any proposal if It shall be. In the Judgment of the Board, to the interest of the State of Indiana so (o do, and to defer acceptance or rejection for a period not to exceed eight <8 * da vs. A deposit of *15.00 will be required of prospective bidders for each set of drawings and specifications taken from the office of the Engineer, which amount will be returned In full In case the following two conditions are complied with, viz: ill The return of the drawings and specifications to the Engineer within fifteen (15) days from the date of their release and (2) the delivery to the Board of Trustees of a bona fide bid at the time and place fixed for receiving bids. Should the bidder fall In the observance of either of these conditions, he shall be entitled to a refund of five I*s 00) dollars; should he fall in the observance of both of the conditions, he shall forfeit the full amount of his deposit. By order of the ______ BOARD OF TRUSTEES. _ NOTICE TO ROAD CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids, for the construction of certain highways | described as follows, will be received by the Director of the State Highway Commission at his office on the 3rd floor of the State House Annex, 102 North Senate avenue. Indianapolis. Indiana, until 10 a. m. on the 21st day of January, 1930. at which time they will be publicly opened ; and read. Project No. 154. Sec. B. Location: State Road No. 43. Lafayette-Brookston Road; Brookston, south; Tippecanoe and White Counties. 6.551 miles. Prolect No. 162. Location: State Roads No. 24 and 30. Ft. Wayne-New Haven Road; Ft. Wayne to south of New Haven, Allen County. 4.04 miles. Project No. 164. See. A. Location: State Road No. 7, Wirt-North Vernon Road: Wirt to 2',2 miles northwest of Dupont; Jefferson and Jennings Counties. 9.733 miles. Project No. 164, Sec B. Location: State Road No. 7. Wirt-North Vernon Road: 2'/ 2 miles northwest of Dupont to North Vernon; Jennings County. C. 779 miles. Project No. 169. Sec. B. Location: State Road No. 43. Brookston-Francls-vllle Road: Reynolds to 3 /\ mile northwest of White and Pulaski County line; White and Pulaski Counties. 11.960 miles. Project No. 184, Sec. B. Location: State Road No. 54-Merom Dugger Road; 1 mile south of Sullivan, east through Dugger to Greene County line; Sullivan County. 9.070 miles. Project No. 190. Location: State Road No. 67. Sanborn-Switz City Road; Sanborn to Switz City: Knox and Greene Counties. 12.779 miles. Project No. 201. Location: State Road No. 40. Brldgeport-Indlanapolls Road: Bridgeport to Indianapolis: Marion County. 5.794 miles. Project No. 205. Location: State Road No. 36. Illinois State Llnc-Montezuma Road: Illinois State line to Montezuma; Vermillion and Parke Counties. 8.135 miles. Prolect No. 225. Location: State Roads No. 30 and 2. Ft. Wayne-Elkhart Road; Relocation State Roads 2 and 30 Immediately northwest of Ft. Wayne; Allen County. 0.234 miles. Bids will be received for three types of pavement on the above listed projects; Concrete. Bituminous Concrete, Brick, as shown on plans and described In the specifications. Combination bids will be received on the following project: Combination No 1. ProJ. 164, Sections A & B. Length 16.512 miles. The State will furnish the cement for the above projects. Proposal blanks and specifications may be obtained free, and clams upon payment of *5.00 per scf. upon application to the State Highway. Commission. There will be no refund fqr plans returned. Plans may also be seen without charge at the office of the State Highway Commission, 4th Floor. State House Annex. 102 North Senate Avenue. Indianapolis. Indiana. ALL CHECKS FOR PLANS SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE TO "DIRECTOR. INDIANA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION." , Immediately prior to the time of filing any proposal, each bidder shall submit to the State Highway Commission, an experience record and financial statement, prepared on the State Highway Commission standard form. A. D. 117. prescribed bv the State Board of Accounts of Indiana. which forms will be furnished upon reauest. Any experience records and financial statements now on file with the Commission will not be acceptable with proposals filed for this letting. Contracts will be awarded to the lowest and best bidder, but the right to reject any and all bids Is reserved. Each bidder, with his proposal, shall file a corporate surety bond, payable to the State of Indiana. In the sum of one and one-half (l'/i) times the amount of his proposal, and In the form provided by INDIANA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. _ X _J. BROWN. Director. TRY TIMES ~W ANT ADS FOR HTTSTWES” Death Notices MORRIS. MARY A.—Wife of William Morris. daughter of Mrs. Catherine Walsh of Brownyiburg. Ind., passed away Thursday. Jan. 2. Funeral Saturday. Jan. 4, 8:30 a. m.. at FINN BROS.’ FUNERAL HOME, 1639 N. Meridian. Services S'. John’s church. 9 a. m. Interment Holy Cross cemetery. Friends Invited. RANSAY. IRENE—4IB4 Guilford Avc. Beloved wife of Walter L. Ransay, mother of Janith Louise, and John Lees Ransay, daughter of John and Carrie Lees, departed this life Wedensday Jan. 1. Funeral Saturday Jan. 4, at the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church. 2 p. m. Friends invited. Burial Crown Hill. Funeral under direction of MOORE A KIRK. In Memoriam Notices IN MEMORIAM —In loving remembrance of Gerald Hoback. who died one year ago today, Jan. 3. 1929. Sadly missed bv THE FAMILY. TIMES WANT ADS BRING BUSINESS. Funeral Directors WM. D. BEANBLOSSOM. Mortuary. Phone. Be. 1588 1321 W. Ray BL ' W. T. BLASENGYM Main office. 2220 Shelby St. Drexel 2570, George Grinsteiner Funeral director. 522 E. Market. 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